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Introduction & Merits of Reciting Dua-e-Sanam-e-Quraish

The prayer of Sanam-e-Quraish (the idols of Quraish) is a very authentic prayer

of Amir-ul-Momineen Hazrat Ali bin Abi Talibasws and so has been recognised by
all renowned Shia historians and narration of traditions.

It has been narrated by Abdullah bin Abbas that one night I went to the masjid-e-
Nabbivi to offer my late-night prayers and saw Amir-ul-Momineenasws offering his
supplications. I decided to sit in a corner and listen to Mola Aliasws.’s recitation of
Quran and prayers. After completing Salat, Molaasws. recited supplications which I
had never heard before. Later, I approached Imam Aliasws. and said may I be your
ransom, please tell me more about those prayers which I have never heard in my
life before.

Mola Aliasws. then replied, it was ‘Dua-e-Sanam-e-Quraish’ and added, by Allahazwj!

Who owns the lives of Mohammedsaww. and Aliasws., whoever would recite this prayer
will get an extra-ordinary reward from the Lord; similar to assisting Prophet
Mohammedsaww during the battles of ‘Ohad and Tabooq’ and would achieve the
martyred status in the presence of His prophetsaww. And the reward of 100 Hajj
and Umara as an associate of Prophet Mohammedsaww as well as ‘Sawab’ of 1000
months of fasting. In addition, one will be on the side of Rasool Allahsaww and
Aimah Masomeenasws. on the day of judgement and Allahazwj. will forgive all his/her
sins, despite the fact if his/her committed sins are equivalent to the stars in the
sky, grains of sand in the wilderness and leaves of all trees. Also the reciter will
be saved from punishment in the grave and a window from heaven will be
installed in his/her grave.

InShaAllah, prayers will be rewarded, through the sanctity of the supplication,

and Oh! Ibna Abbas if any of our friends is, in particular, engulfed by hardship,
he/she would surely find a refuge through recitation of this prayer.

Ref: Misbah al Kafami Page 552 Bihar ul Anwaar vol 82/85 page 260

Another narration from Mola Aliasws says:

"He who recites this Dua is (in terms of reward) like a marksman who have shot
1000 arrows in the battle of Badr and Ohad beside the Prophetsaww ."
- Mustadrak al-Wasa'il, v4, p405, Hadith #5021
- Bihar al-Anwar, v82/85, p260, Hadith #5

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Misbah Al Kafami Page-552 . Bihar. Vol-82,Page-260, also see Ref: Wazaif-al-Abrar,
Toufatul Awam Urdu versions, English http://www.duas.org/alaviya/dua-120.htm

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The Arabic text of the Dua given in this book is taken from Misbah al Kafami
(page 552) and Bihar ul Anwaar (Vol 82, Page 260). This is the complete Dua as
narrated by Amir ul Momineenasws and it is worth mentioning here there the rest of
the portion given in most of the books has been added by Ibn e Tausra.

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Dua-e-Sanam-e-Quraish
saww
Ya Allahazwj! Send your blessings and salutations to Mohammed and
asws
descendents of Mohammed .

Ya Allah! Curse the two idols of Quraish and their two magicians, their two

rebellious people, their two accusers and their two daughters. Rebuke them,

they have consumed Your sustenance and have denied Your obligations, both

have discarded Your commands, have rejected Your revelation, have disobeyed

Your Prophet, have destroyed Your religion, have distorted Your book, have

made Your laws ineffective, have declared Your obligatory actions as incorrect,

have disbelieved in Your signs, have oppressed Your friends, have favoured

Your enemies, have spread corruption among Your people, have made Your

world unstable and subject to loses.

O Allahazwj! Send Your curses on them and their helpers as they have ruined
saww
the house of Your prophet , have dug the door of his house, broken the

roof, have brought down the walls, have turned upside down the highly respected

symbols (i.e. skies) to the lower status (i.e., ground). His explicit laws to the

implicit jargon, have destroyed Your ‘selected’ inhabitants, have killed their

supporters have put righteous to death, their children have been killed and
saww
confiscated His Prophet ’s pulpit and denied rights of the successors of

Prophet’s knowledge to the divine pulpit, they themselves have desired for the

prophet-hood, have ascribed a partner to their Lord, thus consider their sins to be

absolute, and make their abode in 'saqar' forever, and You know what 'saqar

does to its inhabitants!'

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It leaves nothing, nor lets anything remain intact. O Allah, send Your

chastisement on them; to the extent of the sins of every disobedient, and the

covering of the truth, and all the pulpits which they have used, and the believers

whom they have hurt and the disbelievers whom they have rewarded,

And to the number of pious people whom they have troubled, and those who

have driven out of their cities, and their support for the disbelievers, and their

atrocities towards (Your appointed) Imam and have changed the obligatory laws,

and have destroyed the traditions of the Holy Prophet, and whatever evils they

have concealed, the blood which they shed, have changed the goodness and

have altered the commands, have created disbelief, the lie for which they have

cheated, the inheritance which they have plundered, and stopped the booties

from them and have consumed the prohibited wealth,

And that 'Khums' (the fifth part) which they considered as lawful for them, and

those evils which they planted, and that cruelty which they regularly practised,

that oppression, which they spread, those promises, which they dishonoured,

those covenant which they broke, those lawful matters which were reverted to be

unlawful, and those forbidden acts which were made lawful,

That hypocrisy which they have concealed in their hearts, and to the

amount of treachery which they bore in their hearts, and that atrocity which
asws
targeted Masooma ’s stomach and inflicting lethal harm, and that 'pahlu' which

they broke, and that door which they burnt-down, the Prophet’s writing which

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they shredded and those ‘haq’ gatherings which they dispersed and those

degraded ones which were honoured, and those honourables who were insulted,

And (curse them) by the number of rights which they have usurped, and the

orders of (Your) Imam which they opposed, impinge Your wrath on them to the

extent of their atrocities.

O Allah! Implicate Your curses on them to the extent of alterations they have

introduced in Quran and the cover-ups in their lies, tempering with the divine

wills, Lords deeds which were made redundant , and those promises which were

disregarded, and those verdicts which were made void. Refusal of their

allegiances, presentation of excuses, introduction of breach of trust, their acts of

climbing on hills (for their lives) and those fixed rules which they turned other way

round and all that defects which they possessed. Bestow Your curses on them.

O Allah curse those two, secretly as well as

openly, persistently, everlasting, non-stoppable one and innumerable

times. Such a whipping that commences in the morning but does not ends at

night.

Such a beating should be on those tyrants, and their helpers, their

associates, their friends and their fans (‘Muslameen’), those who have

attracted to them and those who acknowledge their deeds, those who

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present proof for them, and on those who standby their followers and

those who follow their words, and those who approve their actions.

(Then recite four times).

O Allah! Send such a harsh chastisement upon them, that the dwellers of Hell

start screaming for mercy, O Lord of the Universe! Accept this prayer from me.

End of Mola’s prayer, below is reciter’s prayer as ascribed by Molaasws.

(Dua-e-Sanam-e-Quraish finishes here, the rest of the part has

been added by Ibne Tausra , see Misbah al Kafami Page-552 .
Bihar. Vol-82,Page-260)

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